Not Coming Home

I don't follow football (soccer) but I do enjoy watching football (soccer) matches. The tribalism of the whole football (soccer) scene just leaves me cold. I hear people at work talking about how "we" did at the weekend and it just puzzles me. Why tie your whole personality to a sports business? Also treating your opponents as your life sworn enemy who deserves nothing but death is kind of weird. I'm not a regular guy, I suppose. Tonight England play Dr Congo (whoever he is) in the football (soccer) World Cup. It's a knockout match which means whoever wins will progress in the tournament, whilst the losers go home. Big footballing (soccer playing) nations like Germany and The Netherlands have already been knocked out. These are teams with a rich history in the World Cup, removed by supposedly lesser teams (Paraguay and Morocco respectively). So, tonight anything could happen and there's a very good chance that England could be Coming Home, but not in the "Three Lions" sense. The…